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Admittedly, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a tough group to oppose. It represents the forces of good (mothers) against the bad (drunk drivers). But the group has strayed from its roots. Once upon a time, MADD simply used public awareness to combat drunk driving; now it advocates ineffective authoritarian policies to eliminate all drunk driving...
...Drunk driving is certainly a scourge that endangers thousands of innocent bystanders annually. Nevertheless, we have to take a sober approach to the problem, lest we zealously impose unnecessary restrictions that infringe on individual privacy and assume guilt rather than innocence...
Chávez (whose other recent proposals include a draconian curfew and a program to take away the vehicle of anyone arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving) wants to give the state the power to coerce the most vulnerable members of society into taking medicine, supposedly for their own good. Under a New York-style “Kendra’s Law,” the courts can define who is “mentally ill,” and—even before an individual has done anything wrong—force them...
...Friday night, I saw my fair share of drunk and rowdy students, but everyone seemed to be in control of themselves...No one was behaving like an idiot (something I couldn’t say in 2004),” Drake wrote in an e-mail...
...last week, except Jack Siedlecki bungled away a sure victory by opting repeatedly—and gutlessly—to run McLeod into a wall of eight or nine defenders throughout the second half, prompting a loss that, sans Cambridge fun police, we were at least able to watch drunk as hell...